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Few factors in the workplace have more impact on productivity than the ability of co-workers to perform as a team. However, not every business has the resources or time to dedicate to professional grade training programs to enhance those skills. Ideally, a human resources department could find a low cost tool that could encourage team activities and cooperation. Creative games using Lego building blocks are inexpensive and engaging ways to help develop teams.

Gaming is an important aspect of students learning. Besides the fact that games induce engagement and collaboration , they also foster a friendly and healthy learning atmosphere within the classroom. It is definitely not an easy thing to just go online and look for games to use with your students. There are several academic considerations you need to take into account while deciding upon the ones to include in your lesson plans. Now that online gaming has become part of the equation it becomes even more complicated to make a choice.

Conflict resolution is a hot topic, whether you teach negotiation, team-building, leadership, or communication skills. Here are a few activities that will help you quickly cut to the core and identify challenges and processes to manage difficult relationships.

This is an entertaining and educational exercise. It helps to unleash people’s creativity, bring them together and get them to cooperate on a common task and solve problems.

In this exercise, the main aim is to get teams design shoes. You will provide a set of criteria as well as research materials and teams should then work on a creative solution. The designs are compared and a winning team is rewarded.

In this article, we'll look at five team-building exercises that can help your people communicate better. You can use them to get a new group off to a great start, or with an existing team to resolve issues that may be holding it back.

This is a series of exercises to practice public speaking and presentation skills. The key to mastering the art is practicing. The exercises here provide a template that you can adapt in various training courses. Consider using these exercises in courses such as:

David Weedmark has written a good and simple post about Team Building Activities With Lego Bricks on eHow where he has summarised well the core essence of using Lego Serious Play in team building activities. Nice photos by Laura Beth Drilling from Demand Media

Lego isn’t just about fun and games. For team building exercises, working with Lego helps enhance creative and critical thinking skills while giving employees an opportunity to — at least to some degree — act like kids again. In fact, development coaches have been using Lego for years in team-building exercises.

In this team building exercise teams work together on a common problem. The problem is intentionally designed to be simple to understand though when several people are involved it may not be as obvious as on how to go through it. The exercise will highlight weaknesses and strengths. To succeed a team must work cooperatively and with foresight.

This exercise is also ideal to examine how a group of people self-organise, assign a leader or approach a problem solving task under pressure.

This is an exercise to help team members discover their common interests and skills as well recognising each person’s unique skills and experiences. The setup is quite simple and you can easily customise it to focus on a specific idea based on your training needs. It can be used for both young and mature teams.

I realize that the phrase “soft-skills” is not a favorite term for many trainers who teach these “essential skills.” For now, however, rather than focusing on semantics, I want to pass along some icebreakers that folks in our community have shared with me.

Leadership games or activities are no substitute for real experience. However, they are a great way to expose individuals to a several situations or circumstances that they may have never encountered before. This will therefore prepare them well when similar situations arise in their real working world.

Ariana Amorim's insight:

I'm a bit surprised about the pre-conception around the term "games" in this article. There's a sentence in the post that ilustrates this exact idea: " We are using the pejorative term “games” to mean any experiential development activity."

I believe games in learning/training are serious business... I trust my trainees to see beyond the word and to de-brief an exercise (be it a game or other activity) with professionalism and awareness. But as Einstein put it, "It is harder to crack a prejudice than an atom."

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